It's a dinner party. What would they talk about? How would this motley crew interact with each other. And, just like when I'm planning a real-life dinner party, I started thinking group dynamics. (I mean, just having Sherlock Holmes and Jo March at the same table would probably cause trouble, if you know what I mean.)

So I shifted gears.

I decided to host a dinner party for literary-women-wronged-by-men. I thought we'd have a lot to talk about. We could drink some wine and have a nice, girls-night-out style bitch session!

My guest list:

Scarlett O'Hara (Gone With the Wind)

Jane Eyre (Jane Eyre)

Ophelia (Hamlet)

Lily Bart (House of Mirth)

Lisbeth Salander (Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy)

Anna Karenina (Anna Karenina)

Miss Havisham (Great Expectations)

Catherine Earnshaw (Wuthering Heights)

Bridget Jones (Bridget Jones's Diary)

Daisy Buchanan (The Great Gatsby)

I think we'd have a great time! Care to join us?

What about YOU? What literary characters would you include on your dinner party guest list?

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It's a dinner party. What would they talk about? How would this motley crew interact with each other. And, just like when I'm planning a real-life dinner party, I started thinking group dynamics. (I mean, just having Sherlock Holmes and Jo March at the same table would probably cause trouble, if you know what I mean.)

So I shifted gears.

I decided to host a dinner party for literary-women-wronged-by-men. I thought we'd have a lot to talk about. We could drink some wine and have a nice, girls-night-out style bitch session!

My guest list:

Scarlett O'Hara (Gone With the Wind)

Jane Eyre (Jane Eyre)

Ophelia (Hamlet)

Lily Bart (House of Mirth)

Lisbeth Salander (Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy)

Anna Karenina (Anna Karenina)

Miss Havisham (Great Expectations)

Catherine Earnshaw (Wuthering Heights)

Bridget Jones (Bridget Jones's Diary)

Daisy Buchanan (The Great Gatsby)

I think we'd have a great time! Care to join us?

What about YOU? What literary characters would you include on your dinner party guest list?

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Join the fun! Sign up to recieve Ten on Tuesday prompts here - or read other lists here!

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